CDI to ISO & Audio Conversion 3.0

1. Converting your CDI Image

Intro: So you wanna burn self boot CDI images on mac? Well thanks to Mac CDI Converter now you can. 

Converting the CDI Image:   Launch Mac CDI Conveter and choose the .CDI image you wish to convert.  Its that simple... There are a few things you must know though..

First,  you must have enough hard disk space remaining to write out the cdi image a second time as the converted .iso and .aiff files will take up as much, if not more, space than the .CDI.  Second, the process is NOT quick. It must scan the whole .CDI image (can be 700MB) and convert the cdi to iso and audio.. It must then convert the audio files to aiff.  Be patient.

2. Mac Burning

Burning the Audio Session: Open Up Toast.  Now select Audio CD and grab your AIFF file that you have just converted and drag it to Toast. It should come up with the track time and so on. For a 4:02 length track it should display as 6:02 which means a 2 second pregap and the session will have to start and end like this. Now click Write CD and when it asks choose "Write Session". It will take a few minutes and then you will have the first session done. So eject the disc and read on.

Burning the ISO Track: Close that toast window and start it up again. Select the Multitrack CD-ROM XA (make sure that there are no audio tracks underneath, i repeat, make sure there are no audio tracks underneath) and drag your ISO to the window. It should accept it, if not you have a problem. (unncessary but interesting: if you choose data it should say 2056 bytes/sector for this ISO image).

Now just write the CD and when it asks choose "Write Disc" as you don't want a session.  This will close the disc and allow the dreamcast to read it.

After it has finished pop it in your Dreamcast and play, it should boot. Some games are incompatable with this method but there will be a fix.

COMING SOON

There will soon be instructions on how to burn the bootloader as well as how to burn CDs that have two ISO sessions as opposed to 1 ISO session and 1 Audio Session (like San Francisco Rush 2049).


-Later